Horace Want Quotations

The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret.]

He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]

The covetous are always in want.

I want to live, and die with you.

The covetous man is ever in want.

Those who want much, are always much in need.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

He who is greedy is always in want.

There is a fault common to all singers. When they're among friends and are asked to sing they don't want to, and when they're not asked to sing they never stop.

Whatever you want to teach, be brief.

Those who covet much suffer from the want.

The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.